Clinical failure of vancomycin in a dialysis patient with methicillin-susceptible vancomycin-heteroresistant S. aureus

We report a case of recurrent Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in a patient who failed vancomycin due to a vancomycin-heteroresistant strain lacking methicillin resistance. Although initial isolates were susceptible, isolates obtained after vancomycin chemotherapy were vancomycin heteroresistant. Th...

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Published in:Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
Main Authors: Fusco, Dahlene N., Alexander, Elizabeth L., Weisenberg, Scott A., Mediavilla, Jose R., Kreiswirth, Barry N., Schuetz, Audrey N., Jenkins, Stephen G., Rhee, Kyu Y.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227555/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19748429
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.05.017
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